Meta AI Has Some Super Normal Ideas for Improving Your Band Photos

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You can see some of the AI-slop "improvements" Meta's AI suggested as ways this band could advertise more effectively.

https://www.coyotemedia.org/meta-ai-has-some-super-normal-ideas-for-improving-your-band-photos/

Bay Area musicians have it tough these days. The cost of living is astronomical; small venues keep closing. How’s a local band to break through the social media cacophony with a simple message like “We are playing live in Occidental next Friday. Please come to our show”?

Well, artists, Meta has some suggestions for you. Namely, what if you ran an ad for your show on Facebook, but instead of a nice photo of your seven-piece funk-soul group playing live, you used an uncanny image of a one-armed girl who does not exist gripping what looks like a Slurpee cup of wine on a stage that’s covered with astroturf, no instruments in sight?

This was one of several confounding options offered to Chris Hoog, saxophonist and bandleader for Oakland group the Westones, when he attempted to post an ad this week for their upcoming show — something he’s done at least a dozen times over the last few years. But this time, the interface had a new feature, as he documented in a July 14 Instagram reel: After Hoog added a recent, lovely photo by local photographer and musician Evan Lanam, the app suggested a number of baffling, AI-generated “improvements,” optimized for a “high CTR” (click-through rate).

“They kind of had a progression from least noticeable to just wildly unrecognizable and offensive,” says Hoog. “The first couple I saw, they tweaked the lighting or made it higher contrast … but then as I started to scroll through, it went from those kinds of changes to things that didn't even make sense.”

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Much more at the article link - no paywall - and there's also video of this Meta atrocity on Instagram:

https://www.instagram.com/p/DaywsK5zN2L/

As the article points out, the slop image where a musician's giant third arm and hand show off a giant liquor bottle with the words Image and Product on the label suggest Meta is experimenting with their AI doing brand placement...though that looks like product placement for someone or some company not paying for the ad, in which case it's even more unethical than typical.AI slop.

[progressoid]

1. I was at a meeting recently where the speaker bragged about

these cool things he did with AI.
It wasn't even close to cool. It was pathetic.
If I hadn't been required to be there, I would have walked out.

[highplainsdem]

3. There seem to be a lot of AI users who are madly in love with themselves, convinced they're geniuses,

if they can generate something using tools trained illegally on other people's work.

IMO that's a type of AI psychosis. It's why we see so much horrible AI slop posted - wannabe creatives turned into divas because they're so impressed with themselves for getting AI to generate something for them, with no talent or knowledge or effort required.

[jmowreader]

2. Gee guys...

...apparently this kind of photo here doesn't work anymore...

[highplainsdem]

4. None of them even has a giant third arm. Obviously wouldn't meet Meta standards.

[jmowreader]

5. I'm not too sure about that

I've heard Nicko play drums. Having a third arm would make his life easier.